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24-27 Nov 2017
Organised by PhotoIreland and hosted at The Library Project. Check details at halftone.ie

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NEW IRISH
WORKS
Mandy O’Neill &
Daragh Soden

Selected by an international panel of 23
professionals, New Irish Works 2016 brings you
a selection of 20 projects and 20 photographers
representing the diverse range of practices coming
from Ireland. New Irish Works 2016 is a year long
project of 10 presentations and 20 publications
that aims to highlight the great moment Irish
Photography is experiencing. The artists selected are
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Aisling McCoy, Caitriona Dunnett,
Dara McGrath, Daragh Soden, David Thomas Smith,
Eanna de Freine, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, Jan
McCullough, Jill Quigley, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill,
Matthew Thompson, Miriam O’Connor, Noel Bowler,

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Robert McCormack, Roseanne Lynch, Shane Lynam,
and Yvette Monahan. Every month from July 2016
to July 2017, a special presentation will be hosted at
The Library Project for two of the selected artists at

a time. The presentation will include a display and
a publication for each artist’s project. PhotoIreland
will bring New Irish Works abroad to key events
like PhotoEspaña, and to Paris during Paris Photo,
with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
The two artists that presented during PhotoIreland
Festival are Daragh Soden with his latest work
Young Dubliners and Mandy O’Neill with a long term
project entitled Promise.
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Flâneur
by Dublin
Smithfield Square
Launch: 7pm Sat 2 July
Running: 3-24 July
Hours: open all day and night
As part of the 7th edition of PhotoIreland Festival,
Flâneur By Dublin brings to the streets of Ireland’s
capital the commissioned works of two great
contemporary photographers. Displayed in a series
of large cubes, their work disperses over a metal
pathway installed in Smithfield Square. These
large cubes become lightboxes at dusk, creating a
unique display and extending the enjoyment of this
open-air gallery throughout the night.
The two selected artists for Flâneur By Dublin are
Esther Teichmann (DE) and Rik Moran (UK). They
both enjoyed a residency in Ireland earlier this
year, engaging with the urban and rural landscape,
and producing the present body of work.
Esther and Rik will facilitate two workshops and a
talk during this year’s opening weekend, you can
check all details and book your place online at
2016.photoireland.org
Flâneur By Dublin is part of a larger project called
Flâneur – New Urban Narratives. This is a new,
European Union funded, 2 year long project,
transforming photographers into flâneurs and
requesting them to apply a new approach to
their work within the urban territory. The project
involves an international network of some 20
organisations from 11 different countries, and it will
be presented in the 13 partner cities.
Other artists that participated in the project
include Giacomo Brunelli, Virgílio Ferreira, Toni
Amengual, Marcello Bonfanti, Dougie Wallace,
David Severn, Kajal Nisha Patel, Augusto Brázio,
and Martina Cleary. You can find out more about
the project online at flnr.org
Presented with special thanks to Dublin City
Council, Dublin City Council Events Section; Mary
Weir; Paul Linders; Osgur O’ Ciardha and Mark
Ward at The Generator Hostel; Bettina at Little
Italy Ltd for their kind support; and Thunder
Transport for the logistics.

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Rik Moran
Stray Dogmas
What is it that makes us suspend belief in reality
and place our faith in systems beyond our control?
The same type of faith that once led people to build
mighty houses of worship, more recently led others
to believe in ever increasing house prices.

Those of us lucky enough to be on the ladder,
worship at the altar of property prices, entrusting
our security and future in the matrices of
mortgages, entrenched in the belief that equity will
lead to enlightenment come the day of reckoning.

The most expensive houses in Dublin sit chained
up and empty, whilst housing crisis related suicides
are at an all time high. Huge tech businesses head
quarter themselves here, yet contribute little to the
economy. It is little wonder people seek solace in
religion, or substances, shopping and gambling.
Unscrupulous developers continue to profit in the
misfortune of the desperate, fuelling boom to bust
and back again.

Over four days Moran walked from mansions to
multi-stories, corporate headquarters to council
estates, and the paths and streets in-between. He
set out to understand how the faiths and beliefs of
the city interact with their surroundings, and what
return they offer to those invested in them.

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Esther Teichmann
The Seaweed
Collector
Seaweed has been used as food and fertiliser in
Ireland for more than four thousand years.
Historically gathered mainly by women, these
nutrient-rich ocean plants supplemented diets
of the impoverished along the coastal region,
especially during the mid 19th century Great Famine.
Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) was an Irish botanist
specialising in mosses and seaweed. Her detailed
botanical watercolour illustrations and meticulous
specimens of dried algae are held in the archives of
the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, bequeathed to
Dawson Turner, the premier Victorian English
botanist at Kew, with whom Ellen exchanged letters
for several years sharing their research and mutual
obsession with seaweed. Anna Atkins (1799 – 1871)
was an English botanist, the first artist to publish a
photo book and the first female photographer. Two
family acquaintances, William Henry Fox Talbot and
John Herschel, were developing early photographic

processes and taught Anna their inventions. Thus
Atkins discovered the cyanotype, camera-less sun
printing, which she would use to record all the
specimens of algae found in the British Isles. As
Teichmann drove and walked through southern
coastal cities and villages, climbing across rocks to
gather seaweed, she thought of these women. She
thought of the ones whose names are unknown,
the gleaners, wandering the coast in search of
their ocean harvest, feeding their families with the
sea, the outside entering their homes with its salty
smell. Walking and looking, each wet strand she
picked up was different from the next. Teichmann
thought of the botanist and artist and camera-less
photographer, who would have known each plant’s
name and properties. Walking without destination,
tracing the water’s edge until the last light went,
carrying the now heavy bag of wilderness on her
back, strange now removed from the water.
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This exhibition is the result of a 10 day residency
that took place at Cow House Studios, Rathnure,
County Wexford. Participating artists from all
over the world came together for an intensive
programme of workshops, shooting, printing,
editing and making. The 11 participating artists
worked individually and in collaboration during
the residency, under the occasional guidance of
visiting artists Karl Burke, Paul Gaffney, Miriam
O’ Connor, Luna Dolezal and Fiona Hallinan, who
facilitated workshops.
The project was developed by PhotoIreland and
Cow House Studios. Together they thought about
the traces of human presence on the landscape
around us, about the marks left by industrial
processes, the stones displaced by immortalising
monuments, and the leftover signs of life that
describe social interactions. They thought about
what it means to capture these moments through
photographic processes. The resulting work
shows a selection of the fruits of this labour. From
the dreamily contemplative to the tacitly playful,
the work stands as testament to a very rich and
productive period of taking in new sights, new
sounds, new people, new techniques, and new
ideas.
The participating artists are Abigail Taubman, Alex
Westfall, Alexandra Huddleston, Alisha Doody,
Aoife Shanahan, Christopher Bleuher, Deanna M
Witman, John Cullen, Julia Mejnertsen, Rixt de
Boer, and Tomoko Daido.
Deanna Witman is interested in process and time
based methods of photography, and the capacity
to capture and translate personal experience.
Using lens-less pinhole techniques she attempts
to visually describe the overwhelming connection
and draw she felt towards the mountain as an
ancient and physically persistent body in time and
space.

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Abigail Taubman’s work succeeds in capturing
and making strange moments, which might
otherwise pass by unseen. Formally strong in
composition, the work is compelling in its sci-fi like
re-telling of ordinary moments.
Rixt de Boer finds meaning in the subtlety of
shapes and movements, reading the landscape as
a physical structure with the power to witness and
reflect the character of a people.
Alisha Doody’s work is an investigation of human
interactions with the landscape. She visually
articulates the impact of human movement
through nature and space, describing our presence
in what we leave, and what we take away.
Alexandra Huddleston’s work explores the
visible trace of human activity on the natural
world, pinpointing moments of intersection and
aftermath with a degree of clarity and definition
rarely afforded to the naked eye.
John Cullen uses the camera to excavate the
narrative potential of a scene. Through the poetic
and sometimes theatrical framing of a location,
depicting the notable absence of a protagonist,
the work’s atmosphere conveys the hint of a story
that reaches beyond the edges of the frame.
Alex Westfall works auto-biographically to create
a dreamlike world of subconscious apparitions,
painterly visions and soft focus moments.
Julia Mejnertsen’s work playfully captures
patterns of camouflage and confusion, revealing
the inherent disharmony of things being numerous.
Tomoko Daido’s work reflects the precision of her
sensibilities, alluding to a dark sense of humour,
underpinned by a great depth of meaning.
Christopher Bleuher explores the idea of borders,
boundaries and limitations in a way at once
immersive and visually compelling. He experiments
with techniques of representation to encompass
and capture qualities of the natural world.
Aoife Shanahan’s work offers a deconstructed
view of the natural world around us. Through
editing and developing she reshapes and sharpens
nature’s everyday chaos, to present a vision rich in
contrast – positive and negative space, light and
dark shadows. The result is a graphic imprint of a
natural code.
With special thanks to The Office of Public Works
and the staff at Rathfarnham Castle for their kind
support, in particular to Catherine O’Connor, John
Fitzgerald and Mary Heffernan.

PhotoIreland Festival brings you again this year
two great examples of photobooks from around
the world to complement The Library Project
collection: Fotobookfestival Kassel and APPA.

Join Read That Image for three days of thinking,
discussing, and making in Make A Photobook.
Participants and the RTI team will travel together
on a photobook making adventure, exploring each
stage of the bookmaking process along the way!
During the workshop participants will learn the
language of the book form, how to read images,
make meaningful decisions and build a book
that is rooted in a carefully considered concept.
Participants will work collectively and individually
on their books with guidance from the RTI team
each step of the way. The six main stages of the
bookmaking process will be covered: editing,
sequencing, layout, design, printing and binding.

The Fotobookfestival Kassel invites every year all
photographers to present their so-far unpublished
photobooks to this Dummy Award. In 2016, they
received 476 book dummies from 51 countries.
A jury selected the best 52 books, and 4 final
winners. All these are now presented to the public
at The Library Project.
After being presented for the first time last year,
the Asia Pacific Photobook Archive returns for its
second year to PhotoIreland, bringing many new
publications from this very prolific region, largely
ignored in the West. Co-ordinated by Daniel
Boetker-Smith, the archive is the only dedicated
library of photobooks from this region in the
world. The organisation offers its open access
collection in Melbourne, Australia, travelling
internationally to promote the work of emerging
and established Asia-Pacific photographers enjoy it!
The full list of books is available online on the
festival website at 2016.photoireland.org
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The workshop format is intense and fast-paced,
yet highly productive. In this hands-on approach
to photobook making participants will arrive with
a collection of images and leave with a handcrafted dummy photobook that is conceptually
and physically resolved.
Deadline: 6pm Sunday 17th July
Price: Â¤325 (includes all materials)
Location: Allingham Street, Dublin 8.
Read full details online at readthatimage.org

FEATURED EXHIBITIONS

SEEING
What Are You
Looking At?
Science Gallery Dublin
Launch: 6pm Thu 23 June
Running: 24 June-26 September
Hours: Tue-Fri 12-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm
When we see, what is going on inside our heads?
How do our brains interpret what’s in front of our
eyes? How do machines understand what they’re
looking at, and will they change how we look
at the world? This summer, Science Gallery at
Trinity College Dublin will be tackling the complex
sensory experience of vision, understanding,
and perception. Curated by ophthalmologist
Kate Coleman, computer engineer Gerry
Lacey, neurobiologist Semir Zeki and Science
Gallery Dublin Director Lynn Scarff, SEEING will
investigate living and technological sight with
interactive artworks examining the limits of
machine recognition and the latest innovations in
sight enhancement.

Landscape Rising
Solomon Fine Art Gallery
Launch: 6pm Thu 30 June
Running: 1-23 July
Hours: Tue-Fri 10-5.30pm, Sat 11-4pm
A major group exhibition of contemporary Irish
photography held in Dublin’s Solomon Fine Art
Gallery. Landscape Rising, curated by former
newspaper picture editor Jennie Ricketts, features
four established Irish photographers exploring
themes around the 1916 commemoration,
landscapes, lifestyle and people.
The work will include documentary, still life and
portraiture, produced using both analogue and
digital equipment. The prints will be rendered on
fine art papers, metals and other fabrics, in some
cases using the photographer’s own experimental
methods of production borrowed from 19th
century techniques.
The participating photographers are Karl Burke,
Mary Furlong, Kim Haughton, and Joby Hickey.
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FEATURED EXHIBITIONS

Enda Bowe
At Mirrored River
Visual Carlow
Launch: 3pm Sat 9 July
Running: 2 July-16 October
Hours: Tue-Sat 11-5.30pm, Sun 2-5pm
At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word
Teannalach (pron. “chann-ah-lack”) which means
awareness. In particular, it is awareness of that
which is intangible and hushed; of being aware
of the quietness and presence of people, places
and nature. With this in mind, Bowe sought to
capture the teannalach of stories and dreams
within a singular town. The project is entirely made
in an ordinary post-industrial town. For Bowe, his
personal challenge was to find the light and the
beauty in the ordinary, the hope and the optimism.
As the project unfolded, it became less about the
location of the project and more about mapping
the feelings contained within the town. It is about
the awareness of who we are, the questions we ask
and the dreams we project. Although the project
is set in one town, it is not a literal documentation
about the town. Bowe wishes the work to be seen
as a universal collective palette of feelings and
emotions, a European collection of contemporary
photography for all nationalities to empathise with.

The Museum of
August Destiny
Lismore Castle Arts
Launch: 4pm Sat 16 July
Running: 17 July-4 September
Hours: Mon-Sun 10.30-5.30pm
Curated by Dr. Emily Mark-FitzGerald, this
exhibition features six artists born or working
in Ireland and explores the resonance of the
Proclamation of the Irish Republic, a century after
it was written. The participating artists are Aideen
Barry, Mark Clare, Amanda Coogan, Anthony
Haughey, Dragana Jurisic and Sarah Pierce.
Lismore Castle Arts proposes an alternative means
of making 1916 directly manifest, by creating a
‘capsule’ museum/exhibition responding to the
final line of the 1916 Proclamation: “In this supreme
hour the Irish nation must by its valour and
discipline and by the readiness of its children to
sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove
itself worth of the august destiny to which it is
called.”
The Museum of August Destiny commissioned six
contemporary artists to respond to one of six
‘visions’ of Irish destiny set out in the Proclamation.
Full details at lismorecastlearts.ie

Fergus
Inspirational Arts
Launch: 6pm Mon 4 July
Running: 1–30 July
Hours: Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30pm, Sat 10am-1pm
Fergus is a toy. He was found in Ireland on a
Sunday afternoon, with a broken leg. Some of
the pictures are Fergus’ memories, probably
coming from a time he spent with a child. These
are images from childhood; they talk about the
discovery of a connection between things. More
mature, and sometimes more melancholy, are
the visions of Fergus’ life as an adult, and with an
adult. They show his perceptions of the world,
depicting glimpses of daily life as well as memories
of trips to distant countries. We see a mixture of
boredom, sadness, mystery and wonder. Frames
and colours are simple, plain, as images always
are when a single point of view is the only point
of view, when it is the only source of light in the
world. Nothing seems to be foreign to Fergus but
everything is certainly alienating to those who
observe his memories of this world.
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In 2006 Helminen witnessed the so called Smash
ASEM “riot”. There he personally saw the dark side
of the Finnish police. How young men hid behind
their uniforms and hoods and anonymously
committed misconduct. Later he witnessed the
reluctance of the justice system to punish those
in uniform. Uniforms create unity and through
them we can separate a soldier from a civilian. But
sometimes we hide inside them to do something
really bad.

Oliver Sears Gallery presents a two person
photography exhibition by Paul Gaffney and
Dragana Jurisic. Stray is Paul Gaffney’s second
exhibition in the gallery, continuing his meditative
search for identity while lost in a wood during
the hours of darkness. My Own Unknown is
Dragana Jurisic’s first exhibition in the gallery,
incorporating the main themes of her practice: an
investigation of national identity and making art
through the lens of a female gaze.

Alice Beresford
Scar Lines

Shutter

31 Molesworth Street
Launch: 6pm Thu 30 June
Running: 27 June-10 July
Hours: Mon-Sun 11-5pm
Armed with a Mamiya 7, carrying a bag full of
Ilford HP5 and euro rail pass, Alice Beresford
travelled through Europe. She encountered past
tragedies which have left heavy scars, as well as
vibrant cultures, which all combine to define the
continent of Europe. There is a mixture of hand
printed and digital images.

Ste Murray, My Mistakes
Were Made For You
The chq Building
Launch: 5pm Thu 7 July
Running: 1-24 July
Hours: Mon-Fri 7-7pm, Sat-Sun 9-7pm
This exhibition is an exploration into an archive
of diverse and multi-disciplinary projects by
photographer and actor, Ste Murray. Curated from
a selection of harvested hard-drives and gathered
gifs, each shot has been (re)approached as a
single viewpoint within a broader body of work.
Ste is guided by mistakes and has been trained to
focus on the doing, not just the done.

From Where I Stand
Chocolate Factory
Running: 5-16 July
Hours: Mon-Sun 10-5pm
Perspective is the chosen theme for this year’s
Dame Street Collective’s group exhibition From
Where I Stand. Perspective is synonymous with
outlook, standpoint, position, approach, and frame
of reference. The artists included in this exhibition
have taken this broad notion and applied it to their
interpretation of the world around them.
The participating artists are Stephanie Culbert,
Karina Guinan, Jennifer Marie Sweeney, and
Valerie Sweeney.

Sight Specific
Filmbase
Launch: 6pm Mon 4 July
Running: 5-10 July
Hours: Mon-Sun 10-5pm
Sight Specific is an exhibition of a selection of
nine recent graduates from St. Kevins College
of Further Education, Crumlin. The work is an
offshoot of recent Graduate Exhibition of work
which is developed as part of the Fetac Level 6
course in Photography.
The group-show consists of projects undertaken
throughout the year and offers a wide range of
topics and subjects

National College of Art and Design
Launch: 6pm Thu 7 July
Running: 8-14 July
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5pm, Sun 2pm-5pm

Dublin 100 Years On is a collection of black and
white street photography taken by Patrick Donald
in Dublin 100 years after the Easter rising of 1916.
His images convey how we are now living, looking,
eating, and acting as well as quirky juxtapositions
in his particular street photography style around
the capital. The photographer is also interested in
how people react to his camera in this time when
almost everyone has one, and the images are then
easily shared on social media for the world to see.

Perspectives features work by students who
attended the Certificate in Photography and
Digital Imaging evening course at NCAD. Covering
a wide gamut of styles, includes environmental
portraiture, documentary photography, and
personal projects, both digital and film work. Each
participant presents a unique perspective on the
world. The participating artists are: Natalie Byrne,
Raymond Coetzee, Stuart Pearson, Seán Ó
Domhnaill, and Natalia Raffran.

This exhibition marks the culmination of study
for a group of six MFA Photography Students
at Ulster University’s Belfast School of Art.
The photographs are part of a greater body of
research that each student has completed for their
final year project. The participating artists: Aaron
Dickson, Richard Gosnold, Katrina Taggart, Tim
West, Dianne Whyte, and Dalyce Wilson

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Obscure Street is an international and Irish street
photography exhibition. It is proud to feature some
of the world’s best contemporary, international
street photographers, many of whom will be
exhibiting in Ireland for the first time: Richard
Sandler (New York), Tatsuo Suzuki (Japan), Jesse
Marlow (Australia), Dougie Wallace (Scotland),
Gabi Ben Avraham (Israel), Nick Turpin (UK),
Sarah Choi (China), and many more.

Following a number of very successful exhibitions
in Ireland and the UK, Chasing Shadows is
returning to Gallery X this summer with new work
and some new guests. The theme is again the
relationship between the digital and analogue
production of photographs as well as alternative
ways of producing photographic images. Guest
exhibitors again include artists from The London
Alternative Photography Collective.

A group of 14 new graduates from the BA (Hons)
Photography programme at IADT have come
together to select, curate and showcase their
recent work. The show revolves around the
collective themes of identity, perspective, space,
and place, and is the culmination of 4 years
in photographic education. The participating
photographers are: Yusuf Amod, Ellie Berry,
Stephen Clarke, Steven Colleary, Liadh Connolly,
Hue Hale, Clare Lyons, Robbie Mullins, David
J Moore, Kieran Murray, Cale Perrin, Jonathan
Phelan, Julia Ptak, and Olivia Quiney.

Seamus Travers, All’s
Changed 1916-2016
Travers Photography
Launch: 6pm Fri 22 July
Running: 23 July-6 August
Hours: Tue-Sun 10-7pm
This exhibition is an artistic interpretation of
historic events from one century ago, and a
documentation of modern Ireland. This project has
been two years in the making, using meticulous
research in both the local history of Ireland in the
1910’s and in the history of photography at that
time. For planned events during this exhibition,
please check the listing at 2016.photoireland.org
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What’s on
today?

Exhibition title
New Irish Works
IDEALS
Youngdon Jung, Blank Verse
Flaneur - New Urban Narratives
How to Flatten a Mountain
Fotobook Kassel Dummy Awards 2016
Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive
SEEING: What Are You Looking At?
Landscape Rising
Enda Bowe, At Mirrored River
Historias Inmediatas
The Museum of August Destiny
Juha Arvid Helminen, The Invisible Empire
Stray and My Own Unknown
Alice Beresford, Scar Lines
Shutter
Fergus
Ste Murray, My Mistakes Were Made For You
Sight Specific
From Where I Stand
Dublin Camera Club Annual Exhibition
Dublin 100 Years On
Perspectives
UU MFA Show
Obscure Street
Chasing Shadows
Nothing in Stone
All’s Changed 1916-2016
Read that Image: Make a Photobook

Envisioning
the World:
IADT
Photography
Students at
Home and
Abroad
In February 2016 the luxury fashion brand Belstaff
launched its new campaign with the short film
Falling Up starring Hollywood Actress Liv Tyler.
Written and directed by graduate of the BA (Hons)
Photography Programme Niall O’Brien, the film
premiered at Belstaff’s pop-up shop in New York’s
Soho district. New York may seem like a long
distance from IADT but the students and graduates
of the Institute’s Photography Programme have
always had a reputation for success at home and
abroad. In 2015 student David Moore curated
the exhibition Small Town Portraits based on his
ongoing project on the historical archive of the
West Cork photographer Denis Dinneen, and
recent graduate Sharon Murphy was appointed
curator at Draíocht Art Centre in Blanchardstown,
Dublin.
Our students continue to win awards from
national bodies such as the Irish Professional
Photographers Association and the national
Student Media Awards while making their mark
internationally in the worlds of commercial
photography, fashion, art, print and digital media.
The four year programme’s facilities skill students
in the latest photographic and media technologies
to prepare them for careers across the cultural
industries, while our nationally and internationally
recognised faculty introduce them to current
developments in conceptual, artistic and creative
photographic practices from around the world.
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